Originally Posted By: tonyc
Originally Posted By: wfaulk
because of the necessity of living paycheck-to-paycheck, to fail to think in the long term

This also has an effect on the obesity epidemic, because it's expensive to eat healthy food. We're very good at driving down the cost of fat and calorie-laden fast food and junk food, but not so good at making it cheap to eat a salad.


There is cheap healthy food though. I think the problem is if you are hungry and don't eat often enough which are you going to pick- brown rice and beans, or french fries?